Hanger for battery elements.



Patented Sept. 4'. I900;

(Application filed (No Model.)

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JAMES L. HAYES, OF SALIDA, COLORADO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF To GEORGE F.STODGHILL, or sAME PLACE.

HANGER FeR BATTERY ELEMENTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No; 657,413, datedSeptember 4, 1900.

Application filed April 30, 1900. Serial No. 14,874. (No model.)

teries, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is in the nature of a simple, cheap, and practical hangerfor supporting the zinc or other element of a galvanic battery upon theupperedge of the jar. Wooden hangers used for this purpose absorb andbecome saturated with the oil that is placed over the top of thesolution in a battery-jar, and the bulky or clumsy nature of such woodenhangers interferes with free access to the jar when replacing theblue-stone or other chemicals.

My invention providesa simple and convenient metal hanger of peculiarconstruction which is not subject to the above objections and which Iwill now proceed to de scribe with reference to the drawings, in whichFigure 1 is a perspective view of the hanger applied to the battery-jar,and Fig. 2 a sectional detail of its connection with the zinc.

A represents the zinc or other element to be suspended in theelectrolyte.

The hanger is com posed of two intertwisted wires B B, which have acentral eye b in the middle, tightly-twisted sections b b on each sideof the central eye, and two divergent end prongs b b at each end,whichend prongs are turned downwardly to form hooks that extend over and downbelow the rim of the jar, so that the horizontal portion of the hangercannot accidentally slip endwise and fall into the solution nor yet movesidewise. O is an electrode of the ordinary form,which has at its upperend a transverse hole 0 to receive the circuit-wire and a binding-screwd tapped through the end and arranged to bear upon the wire in the holea. On the lower end of this electrode is a screw-threaded stem e, whichpasses through the central eye b of the horizontal wires and enters ascrew-threaded socket in the top of the zinc or other battery H element.When the electrode is screwed down,

corrosive either by the employment of a metal that resists the action ofthe fumes of the battery, or they are covered with some resistingcoating by galvanizing, plating, or by covering with insulation.

The hanger thus constructed is simple,- cheap, light of construction,isnon-absorbent, clean, and gives the maximum area of access to the jar oneither side of the same. An advantage of the divergent ends is that itkeeps the hanger from slipping sidewise'by hugging closely the rim ofthe jar.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A hanger for a galvanic=battery element, consisting of twointertwisted pieces of wire having a central eye and divergent ends, andmeans for clamping the battery element to the central eye substantiallyas described.

2. A hanger for a galvanic-battery element,

consisting of two intertwisted pieces of wire having a central eye, anddivergent ends,and

a binding-post having a screw-stem adapted to pass through the centraleye, substantially as and for the purpose described.

3. The combination with a battery element having a screw-socket in itsupper end; of a binding-post having a screw-stem at its lower end, and ahorizontal hanger composed of two intertwisted wires having divergentends and ,a central eye clamped between the bindingpost and the batteryelement substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification inthepresence of two. subscribing witnesses.

JAMES L. HAYES.

' Witnesses:

0. E. EGGLESTON, R. T. RIVEs.

